Bug#624400: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Intel Ethernetcard does not work

[Joerg Stephan <jstephan@key-systems.net>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
Severity: normal

There is a problem with the e1000e driver, the Intel cards

Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethnernet Controller (rev 06) dual port
Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Ethnet Connection dual port

both cards show up via lspci and dmesg but they cant get any link and they dont activate when a network cable gets plugged in.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash